Indie folk artists found inspiration in traditional folk tunes, yet infused them with contemporary themes. This era was marked by a return to storytelling, where musicians shared personal tales ...

While some contemporary folk artists have physical or mental disabilities or difficult personal circumstances, Hartigan says there is an unfortunate tendency to assume that all such artists are ...

"There I learned what art is all about," he said of his education at the National School of Fine Arts in Lima. Born in 1927 in Lobitos, Piura, Peru, Delfin currently resides in Lima, Peru. He was ...

Holger Cahill in his landmark 1932 exhibition American Folk Art: The Art of the Common Man in America, for the Museum of Modern Art, looked to the pre-industrial past for “the simple and unaffected ...

It is not only the largest source of income for Aboriginal people but also, arguably, the most prestigious Australian contemporary ... of both abstract and folk art. Prices have soared.

Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. While ...

A Grand Forks folk artist, Pieper Bloomquist, will have her work featured in a new exhibition, "Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art," which opens April 5 at the Scandinavia House in New York ...

What came before him informed his writing—traditional folk songs, blues, and country music. You don’t end up with Bob Dylan without Woody Guthrie or Little Richard. The artists below stand on ...